Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

After he told her we should remove regulation so she can better compete in the marketplace ( you know against those same billion dollar multinational corporations that have a proven track record of breaking the law whenever it catches their fancy) he should have offered her some cake. Along with all his others half truths and misrepresentations offering her a lie would have been just perfect.

This man is going off on the government's promotion of home ownership. I am pretty sure home ownership is a generally good thing, and while things may have run amok a few years ago, the general promotion of home ownership was not the cause of the problem.

I find with many of these folks that they take regulations that may need some fine tuning, weather it be EPA or financial or whatever and they want to completely disregard why the regulations are there and throw all the regulations out.

When a businessman is getting frustrated, either because he cant do something or has to jump through hoops that seem unnecessary, there needs to be someone standing over his shoulder to hand him picture of the heads of leamon brothers, bear stearns, merrill lynch, and Massey Energy and say to him "This is why you cant have nice things"

What a miserable fuck of a man. The thing is, he's probably not unintelligent. He's probably just got his Party hounding his ass to follow this one line they've spoon fed him and his ilk. I feel for the poor guy.

This man won his district by 291 votes last election. If just 5% of the 6,494 people who voted Green Party instead voted for the Democrat we'd be spared this asshole. Better yet, have the Green Party candidate run as a Democrat.

Rep. Joe Walsh is correct, and this is exactly what OWS is fighting against. Big government enabled the banking industry to hand out shady mortgages to people who couldn't afford their homes and didn't read the fine print. The next thing they know their payments have shot up by 145% and they can no longer pay their bills. Next? Foreclosure.

Big government siding with big corporations and financial institutions is exactly what OWS is protesting. OWS protestors who understand what is going on do not blame the banks, we blame the policies that have enabled the banks and greedy CEO's to run amok with taxpayer money and government bailouts while the common citizens float the bill. But banks themselves are not some abstract evil that needs to be abolished. 'Banks' have been around for a long time; at their simplest they are places to store your cash where it's safer than your wallet because it is federally insured.

That's it.

It's only in the last 40 years (or 80 depending on how you look at it) that the fiscal catastrophe that has finally come to a head in the United States really began when the government, run by politicians who are lobbied and elected by the same rich 1% that run the financial institutions, began meddling with the market and setting the stage for the utter economic disaster that has befallen the US.

So be clear and concise about what you're up against. Because this congressman, despite losing his cool, is quite spot-on in his assessment and OWS protestors would be wise to learn more about what the real problems are that they are facing.

Big government enabled the banking industry to hand out shady mortgages

Yes, but it was through deregulation that they enabled that, specifically the derivatives market. The market was foaming at the mouth to give away sub primes and package them into derivatives since the 70's, this was not a government invention. You didn't need to give these people any incentive what-so-ever to create and bundle this utter crap together, they were hamstrung until deregulation.